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The Blue Holy Christmas Tree of Easing

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The Blue Holy Christmas Tree of Easing is a gargantuan, environmentally stunning nation, ruled by Santa with an even hand, and renowned for its fear of technology, complete lack of prisons, and punitive income tax rates. The hard-nosed, hard-working, democratic, humorless population of 11.007 billion Easingians have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized, corrupt government prioritizes Industry, with Environment, Administration, and Education also on the agenda, while Welfare and Defense aren't funded at all. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of North Pole. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 54.9%.

The frighteningly efficient Easingian economy, worth a remarkable 1,855 trillion Gold Coins a year, is mostly comprised of black market activity, especially in Trout Farming, Retail, Gambling, and Tourism. Average income is an impressive 168,547 Gold Coins, but there is a significant disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 605,142 per year while the poor average 33,634, a ratio of 18.0 to 1.

One-stop superstores divide and conquer family businesses, government officials sit helplessly as they are labelled 'Pompous Womples' by celebrities, dreams of entering the Super League have been relegated to the history books, and the government is reining in public spending. Crime, especially youth-related, is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Easing's national animal is the Cow, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Yodlism.

Easing is ranked 63,703^rd in the world and 49^th in Disney World for Highest Poor Incomes, with 33,634.94 Standard Monetary Units.

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